Show 0 w op aty ay legs of frithjof jr 47 i az I 1 k Y 0 g iss ilk it IF t N ak A wim A 47 I 1 emperor wilhelm of german make a trip each year to norway and he h now w intend intends to present to that country a unique memorial of hie his twenty fifth th journey there thia this gift ie Is a gigantic statue of frithjof the hero of a famous icelandic saga a which relates his adventures and Is assigned to the thirteenth century the statue which Is I 1 to work of max unger is I 1 to be h set ft up nr next summer on an a peninsula of the t soane eri fjord i THALES WEIGHING 25 TONS f IL A is S I 1 I 1 this statue of thalea representing electricity Is one 0 owene twenty flosi which weigh about 25 26 tonti each and which uro ure the largest hat that have ever been cut from single back of stove they were ere designed by saint landees lan dens and will be placed over the entrance to the union valon station la in washington tanking a magnificent facade QUEER CREATURE OF SEA septa Is s sometimes loosely erokan 0 a sort ort of indian ink it la to something very different from real indian ink which ti to a substance gubi tance corn earn posed of purified toot soot gum camphor and musk sepia septa ie Is a peculiar aal ant mat mal sub obtain d from the ink bags or ink sacs of cuttle fish the cuttle fish are a croup ot 0 sin on kular gular lea sea erea creatures tures allied to slugs lug snails null oysters and other so o called hell shell fish the cuttle flab ba has a ort sort of eliell uell beneath the ekin skin cold sold under the name of cuttle bone a pair ot of large urge yee eyes and ft a horny beak uke like all moll mollusks they have no real limbs at all but from around the head there pring spring eight or ten long lenta flee each armed with numerous e k em er dy by forcibly squirting ting out the sea ea wa ter er which it has ha taken n the sepia cain can hoot shoot backward backard through the water with gnat K the sepia Is 1 interesting to as being able to change ita its coir volet in a measure so 0 o ab to bar ingulf with ita its surroundings juat just unde I 1 the topmost layr of skin there are all over the surface of the body a number of cells containing a dark when theeo these cells are ate ispan expanded ded the surface of the body be cornea darkly potted spotted bet but as a they are contra contracted ctet the creature looks paler though bet beat developed la its the and ita its nearest alles allies I 1 nearly every member ot of the cattle fish group possesses poe aa an ink sac the ink sac contains the dark pigment secreted by a special gland discovered or pursued by an tin the sepia discharges acme of he its ink through a tort art of funnel or tube the pigment mixes with water tory very quickly and forms a dark cloud of icky inky water beyond which the sepia septa III dart into lately safety sepias are often caught in nets note with flab the fishermen hermen despising the cuttles throw them out upon JIB he beach and then they may bo be pen open lying in tiny pools of dense black liquid and continually oozing out more ink in a ain attempt at concealment DEAD DRUNK AT AGE OF SIX after his mother had bad given him a few ew drop drops of whisky sweetened witti with a sugar ugar to a cold old charles chatles vanderbilt of williamsburg N Y acquired the whisky habit and AS a result was removed to the wll wit la in a critical condl tion neighbor neighbors advised the mother to gito give her boy frequent doses of whisky and augar after ho he bad had contracted a cold a week ago while the child was left aloni 1 temporarily he found the bottle and swallowed about five tablespoonful tablespoonfuls of the liquor when his mother returned she found him in an alcoholic coma and called an a anbu M bu lance WATCH CHARM FROM SKULL charles it hamilton amitton li tho the arlater aT 1 later li wearing a bone watch harm charm made from his own skull dangling train the birkmans bird mana mans watch fob the orna ment closely resembles the elks token which Is similarly worn the bit of bone wan was taken arop from the bead of the aviator as he lay unconscious on tho the operating table hen two surgeons surgeon trepanned his skull ETIQUETTE OF THE JUNGLE i A moving picture firm has ha been tak ing soma remarkable pictures at a awa wa ter hole bole in abyssinia of animals which come them there fron front miles around to I 1 luence their thirst it to 1 the etiquette of the jungle for the elephant to drink first no nutter matter how bow many animals 1 are around the waterhole water bole they all stand aside tor for the greatest beast 0 of all many of the animals coma come 40 to BO 60 miles for a drink and there I 1 IS a truce between even the roost most deadly enemies after the elephant comes the he rhinoceros AIM although ligh most 1 of 01 the other animals atae rye the waterhole water hole bole truce talt heully two to rhinos will fight over their precedence the cinematograph operator obtain ed wonderful pictures of two to of these huro huge animals going at it I 1 hammer and bonhs the tight fight jonir ended by one of the animals being billed killed when nhen the rhinoceros has hall finished the giraffes drink their fill followed by zebras zebras always travel in herds and 40 to 50 60 will arrive at the vater waterhole hole at a i t time according to the etiquette of tho the jungle however they only come in fourth for the drink ing stakes the first four animals are fixed in order but the rest get a drink just how and when they can WILD WILL DOGS RAID FAR FARMS ra S A pack of 20 wild dogs led by a R bugo huge collie Is with increasing bold ness making malting dally daily raids on farms near Ther Thern malito alito cal abo does dogs hunt with great cunning abd efforts to exterminate them have resulted in tho the kill ing of one hogs chickens rabbits and turkeys aro are their victims the floods of 1907 when the leatha leath r river reached the highest stage ago ever eser record ed la Is responsible tor for the maraud marauders ors whose forebears tore bears were a few tame dogs which were mere marooned on an eland island of driftwood when the water receded the dogs burrowed into the debris and refused to return to domesticity WOMEN TO WHIP GAMBLERS horse florae whips and cluba are the weapons the anti Camblin of larned kan mem bera bers ot of which threatened to use them upon the city cites a gamblers it they do not at leave the home bome loving bus husbands bAnds of the town alone following utie efforts by the to rid the town toun of the gamesters the women met and slid in luca aed an ultimatum that they kokni l cd ed to tte tuko the law into their own hands resignation OF AN EMPEROR an IN e U 4 01 aa F f this curious photograph shows the original edict issued in february rebr uary 1912 by the we emperor of china I 1 in a which be he abdicated and ind placed the so sovereignty la in the bands hands of the nation it was written ritten on yeb r paper placed in a sedan chair mad made of yellow silk and exposed tn in frant of the palace for jwyel christmas as yeast t U T WL many of f the th awana on n the th thames are the th property of f the cryn and an an are so 10 branded each year as a christmas approach approaches a number tit cot it thai at kings kin cygnet art cau and taken t to pens at kingston to b be fatai ft for the royal inner dinner thia those that hia mak maity maj sty ty cannot us u are pro dented ta to rma same of hia his rao naj sl friends fri crea erds |